CVE-2022-1001 (GCVE-0-2022-1001)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2022-04-18 17:10 – Updated: 2024-08-02 23:47
VLAI
Title
WP Downgrade < 1.2.3 - Admin+ Stored Cross-Site Scripting
Summary
The WP Downgrade WordPress plugin before 1.2.3 only perform client side validation of its "WordPress Target Version" settings, but does not sanitise and escape it server side, allowing high privilege users such as admin to perform Cross-Site attacks even when the unfiltered_html capability is disallowed
Severity
4.8 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
CWE
  • CWE-79 - Cross-site Scripting (XSS)
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Unknown WP Downgrade | Specific Core Version Affected: 1.2.3 , < 1.2.3 (custom)
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Credits
Taurus Omar
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